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Matthew 26:64 is NOT a "Preterist Time Indicator" Pointing to AD70 "In short, the usage of "Apo Arti" in Matthew 26:64 [Apo ("from" - Strongs 575) and Arti ("now on" - Strong's 737)] is highly suggestive of the themes that have been previously offered at this blog ; that is, a series of revelatory recognitions of the power and glory of Jesus Christ's dominance by friend and foe alike. Though the typically pret-friendly Weymouth translation would like to make Jesus say "later on, you will see.." this is not really honest. I would rather say that it was simply a mistake, but I find it impossible to believe that neither Richard Francis Weymouth ("If this belief ever obtains general acceptance the earlier date of the Apocalypse will also be regarded as fully established. For it will then be seen that the book describes beforehand events which took place in 70 A.D.") nor Earnest Hampden-Cook (co-editor and author of "The Christ Has Come") were aware of how important (ironically) a futurist spin on this passage is to uphold their Preterist assumptions. However, not only is there no sense of futurity in this very emphatic Greek phrase, but rather we see quite the opposite.
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We have overthrown the wall of Zion and we have burnt the place of the mighty God (7.1).
4:2-7. The heavenly Jerusalem
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID John A.T. Robinson We have overthrown the wall of Zion and we have burnt the place of the mighty God (7.1). [I.e. the temple. For this sense, cf. II Mace. 5.17-20; John 11.48; Acts 6.14; 21.28; etc.] They delivered ... to the enemy the overthrown wall, and plundered the house, and burnt the temple (80.3). If one really wants to see what ex eventu prophecy looks like, one should turn to the so-called Sibylline Oracles (4.125-7):
Written shortly after AD 70? "A pseudepigraphal work (not in any canon of scripture), whose primary theme is whether or not God's relationship with man is just. The book is also called The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch because it was preserved only in the 6th-century Syriac Vulgate. It was originally composed in Hebrew and ascribed to Baruch, a popular legendary figure among Hellenistic Jews" GOOGLE | Jewish Encyclopedia: Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch | Abstract by Matthew Ellis | Harper's Bible Dictionary | Jewish Encyclopedia: Book of Baruch | Catholic Encyclopedia: Baruch | The Legends of the Jews | Pseudepigrapha Oxyrhynchus Papyrus Discovered (chapters 12–14; 4th or 5th century; number 403)
"Kneucker, Marshall, and several other recent critics, however, place its composition after the capture of Jerusalem by Titus, holding that the "strange nation" of iv. 3 ("give not thine honor . . . to a strange nation") refers to the Christians, and relates to a time when the antagonism between Judaism and Christianity had become pronounced." (Baruch) Send an email with your comments to todd @ preteristarchive.com Be sure to include the article name. They will be posted shortly upon receipt |
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